Yahoo announced generally flat Q2 revenues of $1.6 billion but improved net income today. That compares with revenues of $1.57 billion in Q2 2009. Accordingly overall revenue growth vs. last year was 2 percent. However, “Display advertising on Owned and Operated sites … [grew] 19 percent in the quarter compared to the second quarter of [...]

Google announced a new image search UI and new Image Search Ads today. Barry wrote about the new UI last week.
Consumer image search is much improved in several respects while the new Image Search Ads opens up ads on Google Images to all advertisers. It had been essentially limited to retailers with image feeds via [...]

As the in-house person in charge of marketing the online legal directory, Avvo, I need to have accurate and timely access to all of our performance metrics. Since we launched the site three years ago, finding consistent metrics to evaluate our site’s growing link strength has been a remarkably difficult exercise. We have adopted at [...]

That’s the headline Foresee Results, which administers the e-business portion of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), used to get attention from reporters and bloggers. This is the first year that the survey, which tracks general consumer satisfaction levels with websites, has measured social media.
What the company found was that the ad hoc collection of [...]

For newer Facebook marketers, finding the right tone and messaging can be tough when looking to attract fans. Facebook users are different than the normal website visitors as physical customers, in that they react to specials/offers very differently. However, if done right, special information or deals can make your Facebook page flourish.The key is that [...]

Although Google’s universal search results were introduced in the U.S. in 2007, they’re a relatively recent development in Europe, and not fully implemented everywhere. Universal search results show not only text links but videos, images, local results, maps and much more. And the problem is, many European web sites aren’t taking advantage of the opportunities [...]

With Google announcing new Google Buzz API features today, real-time search engine OneRiot has followed up by announcing the inclusion of Google Buzz data in its real-time search products.
OneRiot says it’s one of the first companies to get access to the Google Buzz “firehose” — the full stream of all public activities on Buzz. OneRiot [...]

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